ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,889, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for cooling datacenters" was invented by Ehsan Nasr Azadani (Bellevue, Wash.), Eric C. Peterson (Woodinville, Wash.), Winston Allen Saunders (Seattle), Sean Patrick Abbott (Redmond, Wash.), Mark Alan Monroe (Louisville, Colo.), Kristofer Andrew Johnson (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Christian L. Belady (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Anthony Joseph Bianchi (Urbandale, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management system includes an air handling unit (AHU) configured to receive outside air (OA) from an OA intake, and water f...